A Photo Says It All - October 9, 2012

"I fully accept your surrender. Your sins are forgiven. Enter in peace."

At a Tokyo hotel, Yonemura Hiromasa (75), Chairman of the Nippon Keidanren, shakes hands with Liberal Democratic Party President Abe Shinzo (55) prior to a 9 a.m. meeting to discuss policy with the new secretariat of the LDP.

Yonekura has yet to pay even a social call on the new secretariat of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan.

Photo credit: Hokkaido Shimbun